Heather Slade-Lipkin

Heather Slade-Lipkin (9 March 1947 – 16 October 2017) was an English pianist, harpsichordist and teacher.

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Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from Hoylake, Wirral.^[1] By age six, she had already begun formal piano lessons. Her teachers included Gordon Green, Clifton Helliwell, Kenneth Gilbert and Huguette Dreyfus.

Slade-Lipkin served as piano lecturer at RNCM and visiting professor of piano at Chetham's School of Music. She won first prizes at the National Piano Competition and the National Harpsichord Competition, and was a finalist in the Paris International Fortepiano Competition. She appeared as a soloist with the CBSO and the BBC. Her students included:

Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins^[31] and Contrasts with mezzo-soprano Marilena Zlatanou.^[32]

She was a Professor of Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland senior department, and tutored many nationally and internationally successful junior students.^{[citation needed]}

Slade-Lipkin died on 16 October 2017,^[1] aged 70, from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She is interred at the Manchester Southern Cemetery.^[33]

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